Let’s imagine a sunny day in July. The sky is blue and the sun is shining. You go to a supermarket to shop for some milk and cookies. As you are heading towards the cash registry, you see an old lady get to the cash register just before you. She has a big bag of [...]
Read more...The Rosetta Stone was found in ancient Egypt and was an instant leap forward in understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs, because it has the same text written on it in three different languages. An amazing discovery that helped people to understand many other texts than the one on the stone itself. This post, however, is not about [...]
Read more...As Ambrose Bierce said: “Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.” Create a company – the money you make with your company is yours, but the risk you take is limited. In case you didn’t know, that is in fact why companies are called “Limited” or “Ltd.”. The word implied is [...]
Read more...We are running out of IP addresses. An IP address is a network location of a device that is connected to the internet. For example, the server that’s hosting this blog, can be found at 98.158.182.51. An IP address consists of 4 numbers that can each be up to 256. Some numbers are reserved, but [...]
Read more...The title sounds like a line from a bad movie (it’s actually from Galaxy Quest), but it’s a good attitude to have as a developer. Developers encounter many problems, most of which they then consequently solve, but some of those may be so difficult that an inexperienced developer may accidentally say “I tried to solve [...]
Read more...How anyone could get motivated by a carrot is beyond me, but that’s how the cliché goes. You can either motivate people with a whip or with a carrot. Basically, people will be running away from the whip, towards the carrot. Or the other way around, if you’re motivating a team of meat eating masochists. [...]
Read more...I was at the tailor, buying a new shirt, when it occurred to me how important it is to make sure software is completely finished, tested and user friendly before it is delivered. Uhm, hang on, it’ll make sense in a minute. The tailor had to calculate the price, but he got confused, possibly from [...]
Read more...In partnerships, trust is important. Are you with me so far? I’m talking about business partnerships, but it’s definitely also true in personal partnerships, say, marriages. Now, given that trust is a prerequisite for a partnership, please remember to actually trust your partner. You will have to hope that your partner also trusts you. Well, [...]
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